Middle East: What Cinema Can Do is proud to present 40 films over a 10-day period. As always the majority of them are documentaries, each painting a different facet of the bigger picture. There are many personal works from diaspora directors in search of family or identity, most notably the opening film by UK-based Mahdi Fleifel, A World Not Ours. There will be a couple of avant-premiers shown before being released in theatres and a certain number of the films are unveiling in France for the first time.

From the more than 150 films previewed, the films chosen illustrate the daily theme in which they will be shown, from Lebanon refugee camps to the cultural censorship in Iran, repression or revolution in countries like Syria, Egypt or Libyia, as well as the themes at the center of this event: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: notably occupation and spoliation.

As news of the protests that filled Cairo's Tahrir Square is broadcast on a small television that continues with the incident of thirteen-year-old Hamza Al Khateeb killed in Syria, a man and his family are readying to attend a political rally…

Caught between his brother's past and his child's future, a Palestinian living in Detroit returns to Palestine. On the fraught road through the country he relives the choice that sent him to America and the forces of history now driving him home.

The true fighters of the Syrian revolution, the deadliest revolution of the Arab Spring to date, are the children. Tiny Souls opens a window following a group of young Syrians as they struggle to reclaim their childhood on the harsh soil of the Zaatari Refugee camp in Northern Jordan.

In Norma Marcos' own words, "Wahdon draws its inspiration from two true stories: one is from the poem by the Lebanese writer Talal Haidar, which was written immediately after the failure of a Palestinian military operation.